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| A Contract 
|| With the People| 





PLATFORM 


_ Progressive Party — 


ADOPTED AT ITS 
First National Convention 


Chicago, August 7th, 1912 


== PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL COMMITTEE 


ascent annem snes Sane ee a eS EO oe one 


Forty-secon d Street Building, New York City | 





Extracts from 


Speeches of Acceptance 


before the | 
Progressive National Convention 





By Theodore Roosevelt : 


: “With all my heart and soul, with every par- 
ticle of high purpose that is in me, I pledge you 
my word to do everything I can, to put every par- 
ticle of courage, of common sense and of strength 
that I have at your disposal, and to endeavor so 
far as strength is given me to live up to the obli- 

‘gations you have put upon me to endeavor to 
carry out in the interests of our whole people the 
policies to which you have to-day solemnly dedi- 
cated yourselves to the millions of men and 
women for whom you speak.” 


. _B Hiram W. Johnson: 


| 


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ASC a ls SNES EE 


F] 
| ‘It is with the utmost solemnity, the deepest 
obligation that I come to tell you that I have en- 
| listed for the war. I enlisted long ago, and I 
i enlisted in that fight that is your fight now, the 
N ©6>.: fight of all the nation, thank God, at last, human- 
ity’s fight politically all over the land. 
| “There is a new era, a new fight, a new 
struggle that is abroad now. There is a new 
| political creed, the great creed of equal oppor- 
| tunity, of a fair deal for all human kind, of giving 
| to every child in the race of life an equal start; 
it is the creed, in the last analysis, of humanity 
that is now the creed of one of the great national 
parties in the United States of America.” 7 





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The above are the guaranties that 
the following contract if ratified 
by the people will be carried out. 








JI 


_ Declaration of Principles 
of the Progressive Party. 


4+ The conscience of the people, in a time of grave national 

=problems, has called into being a new party, born of the 

-‘ nation’s awakened sense of justice. We of the Progressive 
party here dedicate ourseives to the fulfillment of the duty 
laid upon us by our fathers to maintain that government of 
the people, by the people and for the people whose founda- 

- tions they laid. | legac | 

We hold with Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln 
that the people are the masters of their constitution, to 
fulfill its purposes and to safeguard it from those who, by 
perversion of its intent, would convert it into an instrument 
of injustice. In accordance with the needs of each genera- 
tion the people must use their sovereign powers to establish 
and maintain equal opportunity and industrial justice, to 
secure which this government was founded and without 
which no republic can endure. 

: This country belongs to the people who inhabit it. Its 
resources, its business, its institutions and its laws should 
be utilized, maintained or altered in whatever manner will 

- best promote the general interest. ba be lievadot 

It is time to set the public welfare in the first place. 





THE OLD PARTIES UA es 


Political parties exist to secure responsible government 
and to execute the will of the people. 
From these great tasks both of the old parties have 
turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the gen- 
eral welfare, they have become the tools of corrupt inter- | 
ests which use them impartially to serve their selfish pur- 
poses. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an 
Invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowl- 
edging no responsibility to the people. ie 
To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the 
~ unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt poli- 
tics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. 
The deliberate betrayal of its trust by the Republican 
_ party, and the fatal incapacity of the Democratic party to 
deal with the new issues of the new time, have compelled 
the people to forge a new instrument of government through 
which to give effect to their will in laws and institutions. 
; Unhampered by tradition, uncorrupted by power, undis- 
_mayed by the magnitude of the task, the new party offers 


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itself as the instrument of the people to sweep away ae - 
abuses, to build a new and nobler commonwealth. a 


A COVENANT WITH THE PEOPLE 


This declaration is our covenant with the people, and 
we hereby bind the party and its candidates in state and 
nation to the pledges made herein. 


THE RULE OF THE PEOPLE 


The Progressive party, committed to the principle of 
government by a self-controlled democracy expressing its 
will through representatives of the people, pledges itself to 
secure such alterations in the fundamental law of the sev- 
eral states and of the United States as shall insure the 
representative character of the government. 

In particular, the party declares for direct primaries for 
the nomination of state and national officers, for nation-wide 
preferential primaries for candidates for the presidency, 
for the direct election of United States senators by the 
people; and we urge on the states the policy of the short 
ballot, with responsibility to the people secured by the 
. initiative, referendum and recall. 


AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION 


The Progressive party, believing that a free people 
should have the power from time to time to amend their 
fundamental Jaw so as to-adapt it progressively to the 
changing needs of the people, pledges itself to provide a 
more easy and expeditious method of amending the federal 


constitution. 
NATION AND STATE 


Up to the limit of the constitution, and later by amend- 
ment of the constitution, if found necessary, we advocate 
bringing under effective national jurisdiction those prob- 
lems which have expanded beyond reach of the individual 
states. 

It is as srotesque as it is intolerable that the several 
states should by unequal laws in matter of common concern 
become competing commercial agencies, barter the lives of 
their children, the health of their women and the safety and 
well-being of their working ideale for the profit of their 
financial interests. 

The extreme insistence on states rights by the Demo- 
cratic party in the Baltimore platform demonstrates anew — 
its inability to understand the world into which it has sur- 


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government now does for the national banks, and what is 
now done for the railroads by the Interstate Commerce 
Commission. 3 

Such a commission must enforce the complete publicity 
of those corporation transactions which are of public inter- 
est; must attack unfair competition, false capitalization and 
special privilege, and by continuous trained watchfulness 
guard and keep open equally to all the highways of Amer- 
ican commerce. 

Thus the business man will have certain knowledge of 
the law, and will be able to conduct his business easily in 
conformity therewith; the investor will find security for his 
capital; dividends will be rendered more certain, and the 
savings of the people will be drawn naturally and safely 
into the channels of trade. - 

Under such a system of constructive regulation, legiti- 
mate business, freed from confusion, uncertainty and fruit- 
less litigation, will develop normally in response to the 
energy and enterprise of the American business man. 

We favor strengthening the Sherman law by prohibiting 
agreements to divide territory or limit output; refusing to 
sell to customers who buy from business rivals; to sell 
below cost in certain areas while maintaining higher prices 
in other places; using the power of transportation to aid 
or injure special business concerns; and. other unfair trade 
practices. 

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT 


The time has come when the federal government should 
co-operate with manufacturers and producers in extending 
our foreign commerce. ‘To this end we demand adequate 
appropriations by Congress, and the appointment of diplo- 
matic and consular officers solely with a view to their special 
fitness and worth, and not in consideration of political 
expediency. 

It is imperative to the welfare of our people that we 
enlarge and extend our foreign commerce. We are pre- 
eminently fitted to do this because as a people we have 
developed high skill in the art of manufacturing; our busi- 
ness men are strong executives, strong organizers. In every 
way possible our Federal Government should co-operate in 
this important matter. Anyone who has had opportunity 
to study and observe first-hand Germany’s course in this 
respect must realize that their policy of co-operation 
between Government and business has in comparatively few 


years made them a ding competitor for the commerce of 
the world. It should be remembered that they are doing 
this on a national seale and with large units of business, 
while the Democrats would have us believe that we should 
do it with small units of business, which would be controlled 
not by the National Government but by forty-nine confiict- 
ing sovereignties. Such a policy is utterly out of keeping 
with the progress of the times and gives our great commer- 
cial rivals in Europe—hungry for international markets— 
golden opportunities of which they are rapidiy taking 


- advantage. TARIFF 


We believe in a protective tariff which shall agfalize 
conditions of competition between the United States and 
foreign countries, both for the farmer and the manufacturer 
and which shall maintain for labor an adequate standard 
of living. 

Primarily the benefit of any tariff should be disclosed in 
the pay envelope of the laborer. | We declare that no indus- — 
try deserves protection which is unfair to labor or which is — 
operating in violation of federal law.} We believe that the 
presumption is always in favor of the consuming public. 

We demand tariff revision because the present tariff is 
. unjust to the people of the United States. Fair-dealing 
toward the people requires an immediate downward revi- 
sion of those schedules wherein duties are shown to be un- 
just or excessive. 

We pledge ourselves to the ostabliahiaet of a non- 
partisan scientific tariff commission, reporting both to the 
President and to either branch of ‘Congress, which shall 
report, first, as to the costs of production, efficiency of labor, 
capitalization, industrial organization and efficiency and the © 
general competitive position in this country and abroad of 
industries seeking protection from Congress; second, as to — 
the revenue-producing power of the tariff and its relation 
to the resources of government; and, third, as to the effect 
of the tariff on prices, operations of middlemen, and on the 
purchasing power of the consumer. 

We believe that this commission should have plenary 
power to elicit information, and for this purpose to pre- 
scribe a uniform system of accounting for the great pro-— 
tected industries. The work of the commission should not — 
prevent the immediate adoption of acts reducing those — 
schedules generally recognized as excessive. 

We condemn the Payne-Aldrich bill as unjust to the 


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people. The Republican organization is in the hands of 
those who have broken, and cannot again be trusted to keep, 
_the promise of necessary downward revision. The Demo- 
-eratic party is committed to the destruction of the pro- 

tective system through a tariff for revenue only—a policy 
which would inevitably produce widespread industrial and 
commercial disaster. 

We demand the immediate repeal of the Canadian 
reciprocity act. | 

HIGH COST OF LIVING 

The high cost of living is due partly to world-wide and 
partly to local causes; partly to natural and partly to arti- 
ficial causes. The measures proposed in this platform on 
various subjects such as the tariff, the trusts and conserva- 
tion, will of themselves tend to remove the artificial causes. 

There will remain other elements such as the tendency 
to leave the country for the city, waste, extravagance, bad 
- system of taxation, poor methods of raising crops and bad 
business methods in marketing crops. 

To remedy these conditions requires the fullest informa- 
tion and based on this information, effective government 
supervision and control to remove all the artificial causes. 
We pledge ourselves to such full and immediate inquiry and 
to immediate action to deal with every need such inquiry 
discloses. 

CURRENCY 

We believe there exists imperative need for prompt leg- 
islation for the improvement of our national currency 
system. We believe the present method of issuing notes 
through private agencies is harmful and unscientific. 

The issue of currency is fundamentally a government 
function and the system should have as basic principles 
soundness and elasticity. The control should be lodged with 
the government and should be protected from domination or 
manipulation by Wall Street or any special interests. 

We are opposed to the so-called Aldrich currency bill, 
because its provisions would place our currency and credit 
system in private hands, not subject to effective public 
control. er} 
- CONSERVATION 


The natural resources of the nation must be promptly 
developed and generously used to supply the people’s needs, 
but we cannot safely allow them to be wasted, exploited, 
monopolized, or controlled against the general good. {| We 


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heartily favor the policy of conservation, and we pledge our 
party to protect the national forests without hindering their 
legitimate use for the benefit of all the people. | 

Agricultural lands in the national forests are, and should 
remain, open to the genuine settler. Conservation will not 
retard legitimate development. ‘The honest settler must 
receive his patent promptly, without needless restrictions or 
delays. 

We believe that the remaining forests, coal and oil lands, 
water powers and other natural resources still in state or 
national control (except agricultural lands) are more likely 
to’ be wisely conserved and utilized for the general welfare 
if held in the public hands. | 

In order that consumers and producers, managers and 
workmen, now and hereafter, need not pay toll to private 
monopolies of power and raw material, we demand that 
such resources shall be retained by the state or nation, and 
opened to immediate use under laws which will encourage 
development and make to the people a moderate return for 
benefits conferred. 

In particular we pledge our party to require reasonable 
compensation to the public for water-power rights hereafter 
granted by the public. 

We pledge legislation to lease the public grazing lands 
under equitable provisions now pending which will increase 
the production of food for the people and thoroughly safe- 
guard the rights of the actual homemaker. Natural 
resources, whose conservation is necessary for the national 
welfare, should be owned or controlled by the nation. 


WATERWAYS 


The rivers of the United States are the natural arteries 
of this continent. We demand that they shall be opened 
to traffic as indispensable parts of a great nation-wide sys- 
tem of transportation in which the Panama canal will be the 
central link, thus enabling the whole interior of the United 
States to share with the Atlantic and Pacifie seaboards in 
the benefit derived from the canal. 

It is a national obligation to develop our rivers, and 
especially the Mississippi and its tributaries, without delay, 
under a comprehensive general plan covering each river 
system from its source to its mouth, designed to secure its 
highest usefulness for navigation, irrigation, domestic sup- 
ply, water power and the prevention.of floods. 

We pledge our party to the immediate preparation of 


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such a plan, which should be made and carried out in close 
and friendly co-operation between the nation, the states and 
the cities affected. 

Under such a plan, the destructive. floods of the Missis- 
sippi and other streams, which represent vast and need- 
less loss to the nation, would be controlled by forest con- 
servation and water storage at the headwaters, and by 
levees below; land sufficient to support millions of people 
would be reclaimed from the deserts and the swamps, water 
power enough to transform the industrial standing of whole 
states would be developed, adequate water terminals would 
be provided, transportation by river would revive, and the 
railroads would be compelled to co-operate as freely with 
the boat lines as with each other. 

The equipment, organization and experience acquired in 
constructing the Panama canal soon will be available for 
the Lakes-to-the-Gulf deep waterway and other portions of 
this great work, and should be utilized by the nation in 
co-operation with the various states, at the lowest net cost 


to the people. PANAMA CANAL 


The Panama canal, built and paid for by the American 
people, must be used primarily for their benefit. 

We demand that the canal shall be so operated as to 
break the transportation monopoly now held and misused 
by the transcontinental railroads by maintaining sea com- 
petition with them; that ships directly or indirectly owned 
or controlled by American railroad corporations shall not 
be permitted to use the canal, and that American ships en- 
gaged in coastwise trade shall pay no tolls. 

The Progressive party will favor legislation having for 
its aim the development of friendship and commerce 
between the United States and Latin-American nations. 


ALASKA 


The coal and other natural resources of Alaska should 

_be opened to development at once. They are owned by the 

people of the United States, and are safe from monopoly, 
waste or destruction only while so owned. 

We demand that they shall neither be sold. nor given 
away, except under the homestead law, but while held in 
government ownership shall be opened to use promptly 
upon liberal terms requiring immediate development. 

Thus the benefit of cheap fuel will accrue to the govern- 
ment of the United States and to the people of Alaska and 


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the Pacific coast; the settlement of extensive agricultural 
lands will be hastened; the extermination of the salmon will 
be prevented, and the just and wise development of Alaskan 
resources will take the place of private extortion or 
monopoly. 

We demand also that extortion. or monopoly | in trans- 
portation shall be prevented by the prompt acquisition, con- 
struction, or improvement by the government of such rail- 
roads, harbor and other facilities for transportation as the 
welfare of the people may demand. 

We promise the people of the territory of Alaska the 
same measure of local selfgovernment that was given to 
other American territories, and that federal officials 
appointed there shall be qualified by previous bona-fide resi- 
dence, in the territory. 

EQUAL SUFFRAGE 

The Progressive party, believing that no people can 
justly claim to be a true democracy “which denies political 
rights on account of sex, pledges itself to the task of secur- 
ing equal suffrage to men and women alike. 


CORRUPT PRACTICES 


We pledge our party to legislation that will compel strict 
limitation on all campaign contributions and expenditures, 
and detailed publicity of both before as well as after pri- 
maries and elections. 

PUBLICITY AND PUBLIC SERVICE — 

We pledge our party to legislation compelling the regis- 
tration of lobbyists; publicity of committee hearings except 
on foreign affairs, and recording of all votes in committee; 
and forbidding federal appointees from holding office in 
state or national political organizations, or taking part AS 
officers or delegates in political conventions for the nomina- 
tion of elective state or national officials. 

THE COURTS 


The Progressive party demands such restriction of the 
power of the courts as shall leave to the people the ultimate 
authority to determine fundamental questions of social 
welfare and public policy. To secure this end, it pledges 
itself to provide: 

1. That when an act, passed under the police power ‘of 
the state, is held unconstitutional under the state constitu- 
tion, by the courts, the people, after an ample interval for 
deliberation, shall have an opportunity to vote on the ques- 


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tion whether they desire the act to become a law, notwith- 
standing such decision. 

2. That every decision of the highest appellate court of 
a state declaring an act of the legislature unconstitutional 
on the ground of its violation of the federal constitution 
shall be subject to the same review by the Supreme Court of 
the United States as is now accorded to decisions sustaining 
such legislation. 

ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE 

The Progressive party, in order to secure to the people 
a better administration of justice and by that means to 
bring about a more general respect for the law and the 
courts, pledges itself to work unceasingly for the reform of 
legal procedure and judicial methods. 

We believe that the issuance of injunctions in cases 
arising out of labor disputes should be prohibited when such 
injunctions would not apply when no labor disputes existed. 

We also believe that a person cited for contempt in labor 
disputes, except when such contempt was committed in the 
actual presence of the court or so near thereto as to inter- 
fere with the proper administration of justice, should have 
a right to trial by jury. 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

We pledge our party to establish a Department of Labor 
_with a seat in the cabinet, and with wide jurisdiction over 
matters affecting the conditions of labor and living. 

COUNTRY LIFE 

The development and prosperity of country life are as 
important to the people who live in the cities as they are to 
the farmers. Increase of prosperity on the farm will 
favorably affect the cost of living and promote the interests 
of all who dwell in the country, and all who depend upon 
its products for clothing, shelter and food. 

' We pledge our party to foster the development of agri- 
cultural credit and co-operation, the teaching of agriculture 
in schools, agricultural college extension, the use of mechan- 
ical power on the farm, and to re-establish the Country Life 
Commission, thus directly promoting the welfare of the 
farmers, and bringing the benefits of better farming, better 
business and better living within their reach. 


HEALTH 


We favor the union of all the existing agencies of the 
federal government dealing with the public health into a 


ies 


single national healt service without discrimination against 
or for any one set of therapeutic methods, school of med- 
icine, or school of healing with such additional powers as 
may be necessary to enable it to perform efficiently such 
duties in the protection of the public from preventable 
diseases as may be properly undertaken by the federal 
authorities ; including the executing of existing laws regard- 
ing pure food; quarantine and cognate subjects; the promo- 
tion of appropriate action for the improvement of vital 
statistics and the extension of the registration area of such 
statistics, and co-operation with the health activities of the 
various states and cities of the nation. | 
PATENTS a 
We pledge ourselves to the enactment of a patent law 
which will make it impossible for patents to be suppressed 
or used against the public welfare in the interests of in- 
jurious monopolies. 


INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION 


We pledge our party to secure to the Interstate Com- 
merce Commission the power to value the physical property 
of railroads. In order that the power of the commission 
to protect the people may not be impaired or destroyed, we 
demand the abolition of the Commerce Court. 


GOCD ROADS 


We recognize the vital importance of good roads.and we 
pledge our party to foster their extension in every proper 
way, and we favor the early construction of national high- 
ways. We also favor the extension of the rural free deliv- 
ery service. | | 

INHERITANCE AND INCOME TAX 


We believe in a graduated inheritance tax as a national 
means of equalizing the obligations of holders of property to 
government, and we hereby pledge our party to enact such 
a federal law as will tax large inheritances returning to the 
states an equitable percentage of all amounts collected. 

We favor the ratification of the pending amendment tc 
the constitution giving the government power to levy an 
income tax. ? 


PEACE AND NATIONAL DEFENSE 


_ The Progressive party deplores the survival in our 
civilization of the barbaric system of warfare among nations 
with its enormous waste of resources even in time of peace, 










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and the consequent. impoverishment of the life of the toiling 
masses. We pledge the party to use its best endeavors to 
‘substitute judicial and other peaceful means of settling 
international differences. 

We favor an international agreement for the limitation 
-of naval forces. Pending such an agreement, and as the 
‘best means of preserving peace, we pledge ourselves to 
‘maintain for the present the policy of building two battle- 


ships a year. : 





TREATY RIGHTS 


We pledge our party to protect the rights of American 
eitizenship at home and abroad. No treaty should receive 
the sanction of our government which discriminates between 
‘American citizens because of birthplace, race, or religron, 
or that does not recognize the absolute right of expatriation. 


THE IMMIGRANT 


Through the establishment of-industrial-standards we 
‘propose to secure to the able-bodied immigrant and to his 
‘native fellow workers a largershare of American oppor- 
dunity. | 
~~ We denounce the fatal policy of indifference and neglect 
‘which has left our enormous immigrant population to be- 
come the prey of chance and cupidity. 

We favor governmental action to encourage the distri- 

‘bution of immigrants away from the congested cities, to 
rigidly supervise all private agencies dealing with them and 
to promote their assimilation, education and advancement. 


PENSIONS 


We pledge ourselves to a wise and just policy of pension- 
ing American soldiers and sailors and their widows and 
children by the federal government. And we approve the 
policy of the southern states in granting pensions to the 
ex-Confederate soldiers and sailors and their widows and 
ehildren. 

PARCELS POST 


We pledge our party to the immediate creation of a 
{reels post, with rates proportionate to distance and 
a CIVIL SERVICE 


. We condemn the violations of the civil service law under 
the present administration, including the coercion and 
assessment of subordinate employees, and the President’s 
refusal to punish such violation after a finding of guilty by 


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his own commission; his distribution of patronage amo} 
subservient congressmen, while withholding it from tha 
who refuse support of administration measures; his wil 
drawal of nominations from the Senate until political sy 
port for himself was secured, and his open use of the offiq 
to reward those who voted for his renomination. | 

To eradicate these abuses, we demand not only the ¢ 
forcement of the civil service act in letter and spirit, & 
also legislation which will bring under the competitive sy 
tem postmasters, collectors, marshals and all other ng 
political officers, as well as the enactment of an equitalj 
retirement law, and we also insist upon continuous servi} 
during good behavior and efficiency. i 


GOVERNMENT BUSINESS ORGANIZATION 


We pledge our party to readjustment of the busing 
methods of the national government and a proper co-ordiry 
tion of the federal bureaus, which will increase the econor 
and efficiency of the government service, prevent duplid 
tions and secure better results to the taxpayers for eve} 
dollar expended. | 


GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION OVER INVESTMEN 


The people of the United States are swindled out | 
many millions of dollars every year, through worthless ¥ 
vestments. The plain people, the wage-earner and the m§ 
and women with small savings, have no way of knowing t§ 
merit of concerns sending out highly colored prospectus} 
offering stock for sale,- prospectuses that make big retury 
seem certain and fortunes easily within grasp. } 

We hold it to be the duty of the government to prote 
its people from this kind of piracy. We, therefore, demat 
wise, carefully thought-out legislation that will give us sug 
governmental supervision over this matter as will furnish § 
the people of the United States this much- needed protectiog 
and we pledge ourselves thereto. ; 

CONCLUSION i 

On these principles and on the recognized desirabilig 
of uniting the Progressive forces of the nation into 4 
organization which shall unequivocally represent the Pr} 
gressive spirit and policy we appeal for the support of 
American citizens, without regard to previous politic§ 


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